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Examples of drunkard in a Sentence
Her father was a drunkard.
accused him of being a no-good drunkard who needed professional help for his problem
Recent Examples on the Web
Continuously caught off guard by Lena’s seemingly naive openness, the misanthrope and old drunkard unexpectedly captivates her with his remarkable talent for writing.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
So your daughters have decided to side with their drunkard of a father and are trying to blackmail you into submission.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
Examples include the height of a flowing river, stock prices, a hospital’s patient count, the movement of gas molecules and even a stumbling drunkard’s swerving path.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
You would now be regarded on the same level as deadbeat drunkards and child molesters.
—James Erwin, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
Its plot concerns a large cast of characters undergoing radical metamorphoses: prerevolutionary drunkards become postrevolutionary zealots, simple peasants become shrewd military commanders, and MEK fighters become the regime’s number one enemy.
—Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
There is an old joke about a drunkard searching for his keys under a streetlight.
—Oliver Bullough, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
Doing so may require more of the maze to be visited than a random drunkard's walk solution or the classic right-hand-to-the-wall solution.
—Scientific American, 1 June 2015
The frequency of these repairs suggests the stool was in regular use—a supposition supported by William Andrews’ 1899 book Bygone Punishments, which details the history of ducking stools and similarly obsolete devices, from the Scottish Maiden to the drunkard’s cloak.
—Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of drunkard was
in the 15th century
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“Drunkard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drunkard. Accessed 14 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
drunkard
noun
drunk·ard
ˈdrəŋ-kərd
: a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
Medical Definition
drunkard
noun
drunk·ard
ˈdrəŋ-kərd
: one suffering from or subject to acute or chronic alcoholism : one who habitually becomes drunk
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